About Geoff
Geoff writes for a living. By day, he’s a mild-mannered non-fiction writer, figuring out how to string a few words together. By night, snaffling down biscuits and spilling tea over his keyboard, he transforms into a children’s fiction writer: a strange, shock-headed beast, with wild eyes and inky fingers.
By morning, he’s relatively normal once more. As a Consultant Fellow for the Royal Literary Fund, he delivers workshops in schools and universities to help pupils, students and staff with their writing.
In 2014, he was a winner in the ‘Today’s Writers for Today’s Children’ competition by Emergents/Fraser Ross Associates for his debut novel ‘The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Monkey’.
In 2017, he was awarded a Mentorship by the Scottish Book Trust for ‘On the Run', a comic caper.
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So why the monkey?
Geoff loves creating funny Middle Grade stories – and his main character in 'On the Run' is a crumbwitted monkey who tends to get into a lot of trouble...
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Currently Geoff is busy writing scary stories for children: The Scare Crowd, an upper middle grade shocker and The Umbrella Man for young teens.
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